Goofs

When the patrol car chasing the hearse is spun around, two cops are holding onto its right side. When it comes to a stop, one of the cops is in the back seat getting out.

The pavement Sugar runs on from the hotel on her way to their pier is wet, but the pavement Junior rides his bicycle on from the hotel on his way to their pier is dry.

After Sugar performs "I Wanna Be Loved by You", her back is bare as she turns away. When she boards Junior's boat, there now is a transparent strap across her back joining her dress. When she enters the salon moments later, the strap is gone.

When the casket containing bootleg whiskey is shown in the hearse, it has two handles on the side. When it is shown being carried into the mortuary, it has three handles on the side.

After the back window of the hearse is shot by the police, the two thugs knock out the rest of the window with their guns to shoot back, leaving pieces of glass on the bottom frame. The next time the hearse is seen, the pieces of glass are gone. When the hearse arrives at the funeral parlor, the pieces of glass are back on the bottom frame.

Nellie's license plate is incorrect. Two groups of three numbers are separated by a dash on the actual 1929 plate, not one group of two numbers then a second group of three numbers. Also, the second "L" in the abbreviation of Illinois is dropped a half-space below the "I" and the second "L" and all three letters are capitalized. On Nellie's plate, Illinois is abbreviated as "Ill" in a straight line followed by a ".".

The sign as they approach the dock that says "Boats" is backwards. It should read "staoB"; instead it is reversed.

Osgood tells Daphne that "Ma-Ma" sent him to Florida when George White's Scandals opened. The film is set in February 1929. The 1929 Scandals opened on September 23. The yearly revue (1919-1939) never opened sooner than June.

Early in the movie, Joe talks about the Brooklyn Dodgers, a name not officially used until 1932. From 1914 to 1931 the Brooklyn baseball team was the Robins, not the Dodgers. However, the Dodgers had been an unofficial nickname since 1895, and the World Series program from 1920 even referred to them as the Dodgers instead of the Robins.

Sugar could not have known where Joe and Jerry fled to after they left the hotel while being chased by the goons.

Unless of course, she happened to see them running out of the hotel and in that direction.

The depiction of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre is deliberately inaccurate, to spoof Scarface (1932) and other classic gang movies which sensationalized and fictionalized real people (including Al Capone) and events. It's a comedy, not a documentary.

Joe and Jerry are so broke in Chicago that they have to hock their overcoats. Yet they are able to acquire an abundance of women's clothes and accessories.

There are any number of places they could have stolen or borrowed them from.

When Spats enters the Seminole, the hotel's name at the floor is readable from the lobby instead from the outside. The lettering should face towards the entrance, not the exit. This was intentional on the part of the filmmakers so that audiences wouldn't be forced to read "The Seminole-Ritz Hotel" upside down.

The holes in the jacket of Jerry's bass do not correspond to the bullet holes in the bass.

When Spats' men are searched for weapons at the hotel, the man doing the pat-down can be seen placing the gun behind the gangster's leg, just before it is supposed to drop out of his pants leg.

Obvious male stunt double for Sugar riding the bicycle down the stairs of the pier.

When Joe and Sugar arrive at the boat dock for their first date a neon sign is above the gateway. However it's facing the wrong direction: out to sea instead of towards the beach and hotel.

When Sugar and Junior are talking on the telephone, Sugar's eyes are clearly following lines on a cue-card.

Osgood makes a ship-to-shore phone call using a Hallicrafters Model S-20R which came out in 1939. Also this radio is only a receiver and not a two-way radio.

Set in 1929, yet features the 1930s songs "I'm Thru With Love" and "Stairway to the Stars".

When Junior asks Sugar where she learned how to kiss, she replied that she sold kisses for The Milk Fund, an entity founded in 1932.

When Sugar Kane is first seen, her hairstyle has spit curls, which is at least a nod to the 1920s. The next time she is seen, her hairstyle is from the late 1950s.

Junior identifies himself to Sugar as heir to the Shell Oil Company, but this group's first U.S. distributorship opened in December 1929 in North Carolina, after the movie takes place.

The trumpet solo during "I Wanna Be Loved by You" is heard even though the trumpet player behind Daphne and Josephine is not playing her instrument. At one point in the same song, Daphne plays the bass, but the bass isn't heard.

During "I'm Thru With Love," a bass is heard even though Daphne is absent.

As Sugar sings "I Wanna Be Loved By You" there's an extended shot of her with the drummer, a bit out-of-focus in the rear, and the drummer is clearly "missing" the drum and cymbal by a wide margin with her brushes.

At the rehearsal and at the bandstand, Daphne's and the Sweet Sues' playing too often does not correspond to the notes of the music.

In the funeral-parlor-speakeasy scene, when Joe and Jerry stop playing and make their plans, the bass fiddle part appears to stop on the musical soundtrack as well, but when Jerry begins to hastily pack up his instrument to leave, the bass line can clearly be heard playing again on the songs soundtrack.

In the speakeasy as Mulligan packs his cigar, the top of someone's head is in the bottom of the screen. However, when he first sat down at the table, there was no place for anyone to be sitting as he is right next to the stage.

When Sugar is sitting on the beach, facing the ocean, she says that the time is 4:00 p.m. However, her shadow is being cast behind her. On Miami beaches, this is not possible. Since all of Miami's beaches face east, one's shadow is only cast away from the ocean before noon. On Miami beaches at 4 p.m., a shadow would lie on the ground toward the ocean.

The beach scene is supposed to be in Miami, but mountains are visible in the background. Miami is extremely flat.

As the police chase the hearse, they pass a "Standard" gas station with the Chevron emblem. The Chevron emblem was used by Standard Oil of California only in the West. In Chicago, Standard stations carried the Torch and Oval emblem of Standard Oil of Indiana.

Jerry fits into the much-smaller Bellhop's uniform.

Joe fits into the shorter and stockier Beinstock's clothes perfectly.

From his vantage in the lobby, Mulligan could not have witnessed Spats and his crew getting patted down, as they were in a walk-in closet behind a folded screen.

At the speakeasy, Joe and Jerry continue to talk instead of resuming play with the rest of the band after the banjo solo ends.

Mulligan asks for another table not so close to the band and refers to the reserved table. However, in the next shot, it can be seen that the reserved table is right next to the stage and, therefore, just as close to the band as he is.

The band members yell "Olé" at the end of the tango except for the trumpeter, who still has his trumpet up to his lips.

Although Sweet Sue addresses Daphne and Josephine during the rehearsal as "Sheboygan", Sugar could not have known that was in reference to their "attending" the Sheboygan Conservatory of Music, which she claims to Junior she attended.

When "Josephine" is playing the sax, his/her fingers don't move.